I was using a for loop to read the filenames in a directory but received errors on files with spaces in the names. For future reference the following worked:#!/bin/bashls -1 | while read FILE; do echo "$FILE" # double quotes needed for filename with... » More
I doubt this will be of any help to anyone else but for future reference.Problem:A content management system writes the URLs in <a> tags with a path e.g.:/sites/mysite/AboutUsbut the customer wants the addressbar to show... » More
I was copying some photos from my wife's Fuji camera when the photos disappeared from view - obviously not something I caused!Anyway after the initial panic I found PhotoRec which can be downloaded from the CG security website or can be installed on... » More
The last time I tried installing FreeNX was on Suse about 3 years ago. So again frustrated with the speed of VNC I tried FreeNX again this time on Ubuntu 9.04 following this guide.Ensure SSH server is installed or sudo apt-get install... » More
I had a customer with a problem using a web based email marketing software application. Importing data and deleting data seemed to stop working. The database uses InnoDB tables so I used phpMyAdmin to try to execute the delete SQL code and received the... » More
The Wikipedia article on find is great.Searching To check for the existence of the string in any of the files in the directory structure:find . -exec grep -H "searchstring" '{}' \; -printOn Solaris ommit the '-H'.or using grep only:grep -r "searchstring"... » More
I was trying to use Rsync on a Solaris machine and received the following error message:ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/rsync: fatal: libpopt.so.0: open failed: No such file or directoryI discovered from... » More
Tor is a free implementation of anonymity network which protects your privacy over the internet. Tor enable this by providing virtual tunnels to internet application through SOCKS interface. This post will show you how to setup and use Tor to browse the... » More
